Pottery is common enough to be found in a continuous series of datable associations.
These may be established through stratigraphic sequences to a range
of independent dating mechanisms, for instance documentary evidence,
coin evidence and scientific dating techniques. On rare occasions the
vessel itself may include a date, as illustrated here. This vessel was
probably a special commission to celebrate an anniversary.

A Staffordshire type slipware, a posset pot dated 1702,
a special commission